I. EXORDIUM:
Do you frequently charge to your credit cards?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To enumerate the ways CHRIST have validated us and exchanged His life for us.
IV. TEXT:
Philemon 1:18 (Amplified Bible)
And if he has done you any wrong in any way or owes anything [to you], charge that to my account.
V. THESIS:
We have a better credit card, we have CHRIST. "charge that to my account."
VI. TITLE:
Charge it to CHRIST
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Apostle Paul
B. Date written: 60 A.D.
C. Purpose: To appeal to Philemon to receive, forgive and restore Onesimus even as Philemon would receive Paul
D. To whom written: Philemon.
He was apparently a member of the church at Colosse, which seems to have held its assemblies in his house (Philemon 1:2). His benevolence (Philemon 1:5-7), and Paul's request for him to prepare a lodging (Philemon 1:22), indicate that he was a man of some means.
As Paul had never been in Colosse (Colossians 2:1), Philemon must have met him elsewhere, possibly in Ephesus, which was not far away. It would seem that he owed his conversion to the apostle, Philemon 1:19.
—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
E. Main Theme:
A personal plea with Philemon to forgive and restore Onesimus, his once runaway slave, now converted through the ministry of Paul. As a runaway slave, it is inferred that he robbed his master and fled to Rome (Philemon 1:18). There he came under the influence of Paul and was converted (Philemon 1:10). He became a devoted disciple of Christ (Colossians 4:9). Paul would have chosen to detain him in Rome as a helper (Philemon 1:13), but not having the consent of Philemon (Philemon 1:14), he felt it to be his duty to send the slave back to his master. So the apostle writes this beautiful letter of intercession, pleading with Philemon to receive Onesimus as though he were receiving the apostle himself.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
F. Keywords: Receive (forgive and restore) him
Philemon 1:12 (Amplified Bible)
1:12 I am sending him back to you in his own person, [and it is like sending] my very heart.
Philemon 1:17 (Amplified Bible)
1:17 If then you consider me a partner and a comrade in fellowship, welcome and receive him as you would [welcome and receive] me.
G. Keyverses:
Philemon 1:16-17 (Amplified Bible)
1:16 Not as a slave any longer but as [something] more than a slave, as a brother [Christian], especially dear to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh [as a servant] and in the Lord [as a fellow believer].
1:17 If then you consider me a partner and a comrade in fellowship, welcome and receive him as you would [welcome and receive] me.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Paul speaking to Philemon in this letter about Onesimus. The WORD has come alive and now the LORD JESUS CHRIST speaks to us about ourselves.
A. If you have done any wrong
"And if he has done you any wrong in any way"
Galatians 2:11 (Amplified Bible)
2:11 But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood condemned.
1 Thessalonians 5:15 (Amplified Bible)
5:15 See that none of you repays another with evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.
Exodus 23:2 (Amplified Bible)
23:2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you bear witness at a trial so as to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
B. If you owe anything to anyone or you owe it to someone else
"or owes anything [to you]"
Psalms 116:12 (Amplified Bible)
116:12 What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits toward me? [How can I repay Him for all His bountiful dealings?]
1 Corinthians 6:20 (Amplified Bible)
6:20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.
2 Corinthians 8:9 (Amplified Bible)
8:9 For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (His kindness, His gracious generosity, His undeserved favor and spiritual blessing), [in] that though He was [so very] rich, yet for your sakes He became [so very] poor, in order that by His poverty you might become enriched (abundantly supplied).
I remember the parable where one slave owes several millions to his master but was forgiven and pardoned but this same slave never forgave his fellow slave owing him just a few money compared to what he owes his master.
Matthew 18:23-35 (Amplified Bible)
18:23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a human king who wished to settle accounts with his attendants.
18:24 When he began the accounting, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents [probably about $10,000,000],
18:25 And because he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and his children and everything that he possessed, and payment to be made.
18:26 So the attendant fell on his knees, begging him, Have patience with me and I will pay you everything.
18:27 And his master’s heart was moved with compassion, and he released him and forgave him [cancelling] the debt.
18:28 But that same attendant, as he went out, found one of his fellow attendants who owed him a hundred denarii [about twenty dollars]; and he caught him by the throat and said, Pay what you owe!
18:29 So his fellow attendant fell down and begged him earnestly, Give me time, and I will pay you all !
18:30 But he was unwilling, and he went out and had him put in prison till he should pay the debt.
18:31 When his fellow attendants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and told everything that had taken place to their master.
18:32 Then his master called him and said to him, You contemptible and wicked attendant! I forgave and cancelled all that [great] debt of yours because you begged me to.
18:33 And should you not have had pity and mercy on your fellow attendant, as I had pity and mercy on you?
18:34 And in wrath his master turned him over to the torturers (the jailers), till he should pay all that he owed.
18:35 So also My heavenly Father will deal with every one of you if you do not freely forgive your brother from your heart his offenses.
C. Charge it to CHRIST
"charge that to my account."
Psalms 69:9 (Amplified Bible)
69:9 For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me.
Galatians 3:13 (Amplified Bible)
3:13 Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified);
Isaiah 53:5 (Amplified Bible)
53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
1 Peter 3:18 (Amplified Bible)
3:18 For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit,
It was an exchanged life, we earn all the blessings, success and prosperity in this world while CHRIST carries all our burdens, our sufferings, sicknesses and diseases in his body on the cross, So it will not bother us again or hinder us again while we live that eternal life while here on this earth.
John 17:3 (Amplified Bible)
17:3 And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
IX. CONCLUSION:
We have a better credit card, we have CHRIST. "charge that to my account."
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